Ida Lewis was a heroine…but she was also a sister, daughter, friend, and dedicated lighthouse keeper, a job where she was uncommonly dedicated and uniquely qualified in the best way imaginable.
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Episode 217: Ida Lewis
Posted 14 November 2022 by The History ChicksTagged As: American History, Nautical History, Rhode Island History, Women's History | Categories: Episode, Podcasts, Shownotes | Comments Off on Episode 217: Ida Lewis
Episode 206: The Gilded Gentleman, Invisible Magicians, and Golden Plates
Posted 14 June 2022 by The History ChicksTagged As: American History, Gilded Age, New York History, Servants | Categories: Episode, Podcasts | Comments Off on Episode 206: The Gilded Gentleman, Invisible Magicians, and Golden Plates
Today we want to introduce you to a show we both really enjoy: The Gilded Gentleman! It’s produced by our friends Tom Meyers and Greg Young, The Bowery Boys, and is hosted by social and culinary historian Carl Raymond. Carl’s episodes are often a delightful companion to the stories of our subjects and this doubleheader is no exception. (more…)
Episode 191: Fannie Merritt Farmer
Posted 13 November 2021 by The History ChicksTagged As: American History, Cooking, Food Writing, Recipe Creation, Women Authors | Categories: Episode, Podcasts | Comments Off on Episode 191: Fannie Merritt Farmer
Fannie Farmer circa 1900, around the time that she started her own school.
For a woman who taught generations of people to cook…she’s often forgotten. But this cook, teacher, administrator, author, and businesswoman has a lot to teach all of us, and not just about cooking! (more…)
Episode 185: Typhoid Mary, Revisited
Posted 20 August 2021 by The History ChicksTagged As: American History, Illness Eradication, Public Health History, Typhoid | Categories: Episode, Podcasts | Comments Off on Episode 185: Typhoid Mary, Revisited
There are quite a few parallels between Mary Mallon’s story (a series of typhoid outbreaks) and our present-day pandemic, and so there are things we can learn from it.
But was Mary a villain?
Or simply a victim of circumstances?
This episode also serves as a little hint for the one we’re working on right now for next time!
TIME TRAVEL WITH THE HISTORY CHICKS
For photos, things we discuss, and our media recommendations click on over to Mary’s ORIGINAL SHOWNOTES.
Episode 182: Marjorie Merriweather Post, Part Two
Posted 25 June 2021 by The History ChicksTagged As: American History, American Philanthropists, Art Collectors, High Society, Woman Philanthropists, Women in Business | Categories: Episode, Podcasts | Comments Off on Episode 182: Marjorie Merriweather Post, Part Two
Portrait of Marjorie that hangs in the Marjorie Merriweather Post parlor in the Women’s Democratic Club in Washington, DC. (If you donate enough money to refurbish and furnish a mansion, you get a room named after you.) photo credit, us
When we left Marjorie, she was on her second marriage, this one to E.F. Hutton, and they were moving and shaking up New York and Palm Beach society. Marjorie had “strongly suggested” that the Postum Company should buy a new frozen food company, owned by one Clarence Birdseye, despite most homes and grocery stores not having freezers– and she had begun work on a very unique home in Palm Beach she named Mar a Lago. (more…)
Episode 175: Maya Angelou, Part One
Posted 31 March 2021 by The History ChicksTagged As: American History, American Writers, Black American Icons, Woman Poets | Categories: Episode, Podcasts | Comments Off on Episode 175: Maya Angelou, Part One
Dave Allocca LIFE Photo Collection 1994
This episode includes non-graphic descriptions of assaults, including one of a child. We give a heads-up in the body of the episode.
Maya Angelou was a writer, poet, memoirist, civil rights activist, entertainer, teacher, director, producer, mom, and friend but she was most masterful at sharing her life and wisdom with the most perfect collections of words. We use the bests one we can muster up to share her remarkable life story.
This is going to take us two three episodes.
Episode 173: Women of the Wild West, Revisted
Posted 2 March 2021 by The History ChicksTagged As: American History, Annie Chambers, Belle Starr, Calamity Jane, Women of the Wild West, Women's History | Categories: Episode, Podcasts | Comments Off on Episode 173: Women of the Wild West, Revisted
First up: Calamity Jane
Belle Starr
And we end with end with Kansas City’s own, Annie Chambers
After spending so much time talking about the Harvey Girls and Fred Harvey, we got to thinking of their contemporaries (more…)
Episode 166: Pocahontas, Revisited
Posted 23 November 2020 by The History ChicksTagged As: American History, Native American History, Pocahontas | Categories: Episode, Podcasts | Comments Off on Episode 166: Pocahontas, Revisited
As we in the US celebrate our Thanksgiving this week, we thought that this was a perfect time to revisit Pocahontas, the real story not the Disneyfied one. All links to things we talked about can be found on the original shownotes from 2017, POCAHONTAS SHOWNOTES.
Break music: Courtesy of James Harper of Harper Active; End Music: Daughters of History by Morning Spy
Episode 164: Wonder Woman, Part One
Posted 31 October 2020 by The History ChicksTagged As: American History, Comic Book History, Superheroes, Women's History | Categories: Episode, Podcasts | Comments Off on Episode 164: Wonder Woman, Part One
Little Ears warning: Parents may want to preview this episode, we discuss several adult themes including suicide, alternative lifestyles, and…” adult play.”
We step back from reality (sorta) to talk about the many lives of Wonder Woman, her original creator William Moulton Marston, the women who originally inspired the superhero, and the creators who recrafted her to suit their own visions. It’s a heck of a ride. And there is a Little Ears warning–you know how cartoons often have adult themes and jokes that go right over the heads of little kids? We talk about some of Wonder Woman’s in these two episodes–oh yeah, two! There’s A LOT to talk about, her story begins in the early 1900s and hasn’t ended yet! (more…)
Episode 162: Victoria Woodhull, Revisted
Posted 28 September 2020 by The History ChicksTagged As: American History, female presidential candidates, Free spirited women | Categories: Episode, Podcasts | Comments Off on Episode 162: Victoria Woodhull, Revisted
Victoria, deep in thought about…we have no idea.
Brandley Rulofson
The 2020 US Presidential election is officially underway so we that this was a perfect time to revisit the life of the very first woman to run for the US Presidency in 1872, years before women could legally vote. Victoria Woodhull crafted a life for herself from pretty raw materials. (more…)
